From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21163 invoked by uid 1002); 23 May 2003 19:06:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 3915 invoked from network); 23 May 2003 19:06:41 -0000 From: "Martin, Stephen" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <3ECE7355.4010903@veridian.com> Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 12:15:33 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1053653430.29351.21.camel@mcvaio.liquidx.net> <200305231006.55635.pauldv@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200305231006.55635.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.74.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] common ebuild mistakes X-Archives-Salt: 6281007f-ff58-4cf4-9047-77349a7f3bd3 X-Archives-Hash: 58ac7f19eb144eab7a9dc0dc91e573c6 Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > - Please base the update on the latest ebuild in the portage tree, not your > own version. This is sometimes a problem with people who submit updates to a > package that they made the initial ebuild for. Those ebuilds are often > cleaned up, but with new versions you still get the same ebuild as the > initial one instead of an edited version of the official ebuild > > - Please please, do not submit ebuilds for version bumps unless necessary and > if necessary tell us what changed. I've a couple of questions about this. Last night I emerged mplayer and noticed that aalib didn't get installed even though I had it in USE. Obviously, fixing this is a trivial change to the RDEPEND section of the ebuild (aalib is autodetected by mplayer and so no change to $myconf is necessary). What's the best way to handle small changes like this? Should I just file a bug and state what needs to be done, or should I file a bug and attach a diff? Is there a rule of thumb for how large a change has to be in order to warrant a diff or ebuild? -- Stephen Martin PGP/GnuPG key 1024D/8C4FCA5D -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list